Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
BRAM STOKEREnter freely and of your own free will!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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The Dead travel fast.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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